The Tomato

Posted by Hallee on Jan 17, 2012 in Gardening, Hallee's Galley

In December, I had a vine-ripe tomato sitting on my window sill. When I picked it up, the outside felt very bumpy, which was kind of strange. I know this picture is blurry, but maybe you can see the little off-colored bumps along the skin.

Tags: Gardening, Hallee's Galley, Tomato

Oven Roasted Tomato Sauce with Garlic & Basil

Posted by Hallee on Oct 19, 2011 in Gardening, Hallee's Galley, Preserving, sauces & spreads

My garden is STILL producing tomatoes. I had about 15 pounds the other day, and wanted to do something different with them, so I tried oven roasted tomato sauce.

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Tags: Agriculture, Agronomy, fresh basil, fresh parsley, Fruit, Gardening, Garlic, Hallee's Galley, Hospitality/Recreation, Preserving, preserving food, Sauce, Tomato sauce, Tomatoes

Seasonal Perspective

Posted by Hallee on Sep 15, 2011 in Gardening, Hallee's Galley

Now, on September 15th, I’m worn out. If I never see another mason jar or freezer bag again, it would suit me just fine. I have been slicing, dicing, cooking, peeling, preserving, drying, and freezing until I just don’t want to do it any more. Don’t get me wrong – God has provided and I am thankful. As much as I love the art of food preservation, I’m just ready for this season to be over. I’ve kept up with school, laundry, and scrubbing. The house is clean, but the picking up and general housekeeping maintenance has been ignored and the day-to-day clutter is about to take over, the classroom is chaos, and my kitchen may never recover. I still have suitcases on the floor of my bedroom from our trip to Ft. Wayne, Indiana, Labor Day Weekend.

Tags: Food preservation, Gardening, Hallee's Galley, Hospitality/Recreation, Preserving

Arachnophobia

Posted by Hallee on Aug 25, 2011 in Gardening, Life

I haven’t always been afraid of spiders. My mother is and always has been, but they never really scared me. At least, until my senior year of high school, when my friend, Robbie, took me to see the movie Arachnophobia. That movie scared me.

Tags: Arachnophobia, Entertainment/Culture, Gardening, Human Interest, Organic gardening, phobias, Rikki Tikki Tavi

The Garden – Week 13

Posted by Hallee on Jul 20, 2011 in Gardening, Hallee's Galley

I was due to post a garden post last week, but we had Squash Week! while I was out of pocket instead. So, it’s been a few weeks since you’ve seen pictures.

Tags: caging plants, corn, cucumber, garden, Gardening, green beans, growing, Hallee's Galley, horticulture, peas, plants, Pumpkin, red tomatoes, Squash, Three Sisters, three sisters gardening, Tomatoes, yellow squash, yellow tomatoes

The Garden: Week 8

Posted by Hallee on Jun 30, 2011 in Gardening, Hallee's Galley

It’s crazy how, when you’re looking at the new baby plants planted so far apart, you think you should fill in the gaps. But, experience teaches you that’s a really bad idea.

Tags: Environment, Gardening, growing food, Hallee's Galley, horticulture, self sufficiency

The Garden: Week 6

Posted by Hallee on Jun 16, 2011 in Gardening, Hallee's Galley

I no longer have a smaller garden, a corn garden, and a main garden – everything has been merged into one big “L” shaped garden.

Tags: Butternut squash, corn, cucumber, fresh vegetabes, garden, Gardening, green beans, green peas, Hallee's Galley, homegrown, horticulture, Organic gardening, Pumpkin, radishes, Squash, three sisters gardening, Tomatoes, vegetables, Zucchini

Three Sisters

Posted by Hallee on Jun 8, 2011 in Gardening, Hallee's Galley

Three sisters is a Native American gardening technique called “intercropping”. Three plants – corn, squash, and beans – are planted together and work together. The green bean crawls up the corn stalk and uses it as a pole, nourishing the soil at its roots with nitrogen nodules in its roots, and the squash grows along the base of the corn and beans, providing ground cover to retain moisture and prevent weed growth.

Tags: Agriculture, Agriculture in the United States, Agronomy, Bean, Environment, Gardening, Green Bean, Hallee's Galley, Human Interest, Maize, Native American cuisine, Organic gardening, Permaculture, Squash, Staple foods, Three Sisters

The Garden: Week 4

Posted by Hallee on Jun 1, 2011 in Gardening, Hallee's Galley

I know I didn’t post a garden post last week. To be honest, the garden frustrated me a little bit last week, and I just had to take a step back from it. We’d had so much rain – record breaking rainfall. Then the temperature dropped. Then it warmed up and we had even more rain.

Tags: apple tree, Apples, canteloupe, carrots, corn, cucumbers, garden, Gardening, green beans, Hallee's Galley, herb garden, Herbs, horseradish, horticulture, melon, onions, peas, Pumpkin, radishes, Squash, Tomatoes, vegetable garden, Watermelon, Zucchini

The Garden: Week 2

Posted by Hallee on May 18, 2011 in Gardening, Hallee's Galley

This has been an off week for the garden. The highs every day have been about 50 degrees (last week the highs were about 85 degrees), and it has been raining. I think Tuesday night, the low was 43, and some part of my brain worried that it would drop to freezing. Kind of hard for this girl from Florida to take the third week of May.